Wine gums are very effective cough sweets; not much inferior to the remedies that are claimed to act on the brain to dull the cough reflex, and markedly superior to the cough sweets that work by soothing the throat.
I recently bought some wine gums to test the hypothesis that they do not taste of wine; they don't. When I contracted a cough I found that sucking them almost completely eliminated the urge to cough while the wine gum lasted, and they last a gratifying long time.
I suspect they contain a lot of gelatine, some sugar and a little citric acid, or perhaps tartaric acid. Perhaps gelatine has some medicinal value. That is an example of what C. S. Peirce would have called an 'abduction' - a generalisation with little support so far, that may still be worth testing.
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